Power Of Prevention (POP)

The POP Challenge is where you can pledge to exercise five days a week for 30 minutes per day. You will also receive your POP certificate and go to the President’s Challenge to register for your President’s Challenge Certificate and Emblem once completing six weeks of physical activity. Have links to many cool websites.www.powerofprevention.com/kids_home.php

The City of Miami Park and Recreation

Offers fitness classes for children 10 and younger for free. Also offers swimming and tennis lesson for reasonable prices. visit the website below for all the program. for swimming call 305-634-8164 for all other programs call 305-634-5791 ext. 322www.miamigov.com/Parks/pages/about_us/news_events.asp

We Can!

YMCA of Greater Miami

Various activities including swimming (only in homestead), fitness and camps available at minimal fee. Financial aid available for low income families. call them at Toll Free: 1-877-WOW-YMCA (1-877-969-9622)http://www.ymcamiami.org/

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Baptist Health Smoking Cessation

South Miami Hospital offers a six-week program to help 18 years and up stop smoking. The fee is $85. For a schedule of dates and times, call 786-662-8484 orclick here

Eat Smart. Play Hard.

What should kids and parents eat and do for good health? The answer is just a ‘click’ away at USDA’s new web pages for kids and parents.
For kids go to: www.fns.usda.gov/eatsmartplayhardkids/
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Get Fit Get Right

Developed to help overweight teens make small, long term changes to their eating and exercise habits to get healthier. Go to website below.www.getfitgetright.org

Healthy Snacks

Healthy Snacks for Children from UF Center for Science in the Public Interest. click here

HHS Tobacco Cessation Guideline

MyPyramid.gov

This website gives details regarding a food pyramid. It contains various interactive games and activities that involve children and empowers them make their own diets healthier.http://www.mypyramid.gov/kids/index.html

OK FINE

Run by Miami Children’s Hospital, its foundation, and its community partners the Overtown Kids (OK) Fitness, Involvement, Nutrition, Education (FINE) Program help obese children develop healthy habits that include proper eating and physical exercise. Located at Overtown Youth Center, 450 NW 14th Street in Miami. Contact 305-668-5514.

P.H.A.S.E.S. – Preventive Health and Safety Education for Students

Miami-Dade AHEC (Area Health education center) has PHASES Program for elementary, middle and high school students focusing on preventative health and safety education for children and adolescents on topics such as nutrition, cardiovascular health, eating disorders, breast cancer, asthma, skin cancer and bone health. Miami-Dade AHEC provides this program and all accompanying materials completely free of charge to all public and private schools in Miami-Dade County upon request.http://www.mdahec.org/Community_Education/index.html

Parents Step Up

It is an innovative, bilingual, childhood obesity prevention campaign sponsored by Baptist Health South Florida, Memorial Healthcare System’s Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital. Parents Step Up is a national resource that is updated regularly with recent news articles, studies and statistics relevant to parental responsibility for childhood obesity.http://www.parentsstepup.com/home.html

CAP4Kids does not recommend or endorse the agencies or resources listed on the site. This is an informational site only. We encourage users to carefully review and evaluate all services and decide what is best to meet the needs of their families.